crusader
/kruːˈseɪdə
/noun
1 (Crusader) A fighter in the medieval Crusades.Participation in the Crusade was said to have great spiritual value for the individual crusader....
- The man who went on about the need for love found himself backing crusaders all the way to the Holy Land.
- The entire venture was an ignoble failure, calling forth from Bernard a passionate lament over the sins of the crusaders.
Synonyms
campaigner, fighter, battler;
champion, advocate, promoter, enthusiast;
reformer
2A person who campaigns vigorously for political, social, or religious change; a campaigner: crusaders for early detection and treatment of mental illnesses...
- CNN entertainment correspondent Brooke Anderson is investigating Senator Patrick Leahy's fascination with the caped crusader.
- Theoretical science has been slowly driven from the universities by the new crusaders of Postmodernism.
- In 2004, the Republicans will be a prowar party led by a would-be crusader.
Rhymes
- Bosc
- boscage
- Bosch, Hieronymus
- Bosc pear
- Bose, Satyendra Nath
- bosey
- Bose–Einstein condensate
- Bose–Einstein condensation
- Bose–Einstein particle
- Bose–Einstein statistics
- bosh
- bo shan lu
- bosie
- bosk
- boskage
- bosker
- bosky
- Bosman
- Bosnia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bosniac
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Bosniak
- Bosnian
- Bosnian Croat